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+title: And
+genre: verse
+
+id: and
+toc: "And"
+
+epigraph:
+    content: |
+        "What is your favorite word?"
+
+        "And.  It is so hopeful."
+    attrib: Margaret Atwood
+    link: 'http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/oct/28/margaret-atwood-q-a'
+
+project:
+    title: Elegies for alternate selves
+    class: elegies
+    order: 3
+    next:
+    - title: Words and meaning
+      link: words-meaning
+    prev:
+    - title: How to read this
+      link: howtoread
+...
+
+| And you were there at the start of it all
+| and you were there at the end bitter as a [nail][]
+
+| and you folded your [hands like little doves][]
+| that flew away like an afterthought
+
+| when you turned to me and the window light
+| on your face when you told me and I did not
+
+| recognize you in the throng of those who
+| are not you and I asked [are we in a church][church]
+
+| and you answered with the look on your face
+| like birds [caught in a snare][] like on a voice
+
+| and I think it might have been my voice
+| and I could not do but look away my head
+
+| was not my head anymore or hold my thoughts
+| I never did get an answer from you but from
+
+| the [man on the radio][] murmuring all night
+| and I couldn't understand him so far away
+
+| and I could tell I was missing something important
+| and you nodded to yourself at something he said
+
+[church]: boar.html
+[hands like little doves]: cold-wind.html
+[nail]: last-passenger.html
+[caught in a snare]: roughgloves.html
+[man on the radio]: worse-looking-over.html